The more I think about this one, the more stupid it becomes to me. Angry at the media manipulation and the way people like PsYcNeT eat it up to get their jollies off. There's actually major issues with race plaguing the States and the world. We don't need to make up more. A kid broke a fence, the neighbours (who already have an extremely poor relationship - probably in part because one is inconsiderate and the other is police happy) called the non-emergency police line. Hardly racist. And all it does it divide people even more as now you guys like PsYcNeT who will try to disparage anyone who isn't willing to call out the neighbours as KKK members. If you don't think there's neighbours out there that would call the police on a white kid who broke their fence, you're lying to yourself.
Even the tweet designed to cause outrage
"You're a 12 year old. And your neighbors have called the police on you twice in recent weeks for for 1) mowing the lawn 2) playing on a Slip-N-Slide."
No the police were not called because they were playing on a Slip-N-Slide, they were called because they broke the fence. It's in the police report.
Again, neighbours are probably hard to get along dillweeds. But no reason to call them racist. Except of course people love being faux-angry and self-righteous today. And just being a lousy neighbour isn't a good enough reason - no, let's portray them racist so we can get that justice boner hard on when we ruin their lives.
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